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Re:Switching to Elixir by lucasyvas on Friday November 10, 2023 @08:20AM (#38218449)
To be fair, it's the author's fault this time. They brought it up at the very beginning in the third paragraph.

The author's joy will also be short-lived because static typing is coming and will likely win out if the implementation is solid.

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Re:Switching to Elixir by bo0tzz on Friday November 10, 2023 @08:51AM (#38218764)
The upcoming typesystem for Elixir will be a gradual type system, so you will not be required to write any types even after it lands (and you will still benefit from the typechecker either way).
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Re:Switching to Elixir by ljm on Saturday November 11, 2023 @04:10PM (#38234563)
Author here... I wasn't the one who posted this article to HN and upvoted it. Hell, I don't even have analytics on my website, so I had no idea. You can't really blame me for sharing my thoughts.

But yeah, static typing in some circles is a racket. Typescript has been a royal pain in the ass because people think a type system solves everything, but it can't solve side-effects no matter how well-typed they are.

Tests are always going to be my safety harness, not a promise from the compiler that my shit is sound.

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